Elliot Perlman, Author . Riverhead $27.95 (640p) ISBN 978-1-57322-281-5
By copping the title of William Empson's classic of literary criticism, Australian writer Perlman (Three Dollars
) sets a high bar for himself, but he justifies his theft with a relentlessly driven story, told from seven perspectives, about the...
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Elliot Perlman, Author . Riverhead $24.95 (277p) ISBN 978-1-57322-321-8
Perlman's bestseller Seven Types of Ambiguity
was published in December of last year; this set of nine stories, first published in Perlman's native Australia in 2000, works the peripheries of similar territory and reads like a very...
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Elliot Perlman, Author MacAdam/Cage Publishing $22 (381p) ISBN 978-1-878448-88-0
One of Australia's acclaimed young writers, first novelist Perlman explores the conundrums of conscience in one man's desire to understand his place as a husband, father and complicated human being amid late capitalism's ever-escalating pressure....
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Elliot Perlman. Riverhead, $28.95 (640p) ISBN 978-1-59448-847-4
At the heart of Perlman’s long, labyrinthine, but rewarding novel are two narratives: a Polish Jew tells the tale of his ordeal in a Nazi death camp to a black American ex-con while evidence of black American soldiers liberating a concentration camp
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